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- 12831: Rabindranath Tagore
- ... estate in Bengal. He did this to teach a blend of eastern and western philosophies. His school was expanded into an international university in 1921 called Visva-Bharati. He also lectured and traveled throughout the world. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali, but translated a number of his works into English himself. Tagores writing is full of imagination, religion, and his love of his homeland and nature. The Nobel Prize ...
- 12832: The Scarlet Letter 2
- ... they were pure. The bible was their guide for life, as they were often called people of the book. Both the political and the religious aspects of Puritan society were ruled by morality. The Puritan world view was a society with high moral standards such as honesty, sobriety, responsibility, and hard work. To get to heaven, the Puritans felt one must understand God. One should choose to live a life the ...
- 12833: The Scarlet Letter -x
- ... trials. Hawthorne did not condone their acts and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general. Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal "soapbox" for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is being scorned by a group of women who feel that she deserves a larger punishment than ...
- 12834: Reform Judaism In The 19th Cen
- ... this was to force Jews to give up public schools and universities. This didn't work. Rabbis suggested that observance might have to be changed in order to appeal to the Jew living the modern world. They realized that every now and then old practices and new ones were introduced, resulting in a different lifestyle then 4000 or even 2000 years previously. They fathomed that these changes often made life easier ...
- 12835: Ramayana And Sanskrit
- ... use of language and the magnificence of their descriptions. Raghuvamsa, a famous poet who lived at the height of the poetic revival in Classical Sanskrit, was a Buddhist who wrote Mahakavayas. Mahakavyas was descriptions of war, nature and political issues, are the pride of some Sanskrit literature. An example of this is shown by the Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa, a poem that deals about the marriage of Parvati and Siva. Its near ...
- 12836: Tragic Triumph
- ... until the 20th century, when Massachusetts courts rescinded the excommunication and acquitted Proctor and the others. As a result, victory is achieved in the culmination of Proctor s integrity, where he forever engraves in the world s mind the honor of commitment, a value which will forever be noble. It appears the critics were right: The Crucible is a tragedy. But the uniqueness of the play is what captured my heart ...
- 12837: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- ... that he was a good man all along. She has learned a lesson about understanding and tolerance. And through the sheriff's action she sees that sometimes there can be justice and compassion in the world. The title of the book, To Kill a Mockingbird is a key to some themes in the novel. The title is first explained in Chapter 10 at the time that Jem and Scout have just ...
- 12838: To Kill A Mockingbird 2 ---
- ... by the mockingbird was a black man, Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was a man who had been wrongly viewed by society. Society viewed him as just a black man living in a white man s world. He was thought to be a bad person just because he was black. In reality, people might have liked him if they just got to know him. Tom Robinson can be compared to the senseless ...
- 12839: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... favour to her father, and that she owed him at least this, for he demanded very little out of her and Jem. When one dies, it is most likely that they would prefer leaving this world feeling good about themselves, as did Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, who had to go through a painful process to be successful in doing this. Mrs. Dubose was an elderly and frail woman who was despised ...
- 12840: To An Athlete Dying Young
- ... s poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" suggests that life is short and glory is even shorter. A way out of this trap is to do a great deed and then slip away from this world unnoticed. Glories have a short duration and records are quickly broken. So the only alternative is to depart before glories wither and records are bettered. Works Cited Housman, A. E. To an Athlete Dying Young ...
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